What is the most popular fabric choice for a mock-up?
Muslin
I am the most effective glue for EVA foam, but im highly toxic and you shouldn’t use me without a respirator or around pets, What am I?
Contact cement or barge
This sticky product is used for realistic wounds or scars, but be careful with your clothes
Liquid Latex or Scar Wax
The term “cosplay” was coined in which country?
Japan
By Nobuyuki Takahashi
What Item is placed on a prop to indicate that it is safe and non lethal
Zip Tie
Name one way to finish a raw edge of a seam WITHOUT a serger/overlocker
zigzag stitch, pinking shears, binding with bias tape
Before cosplay specific eva foam became avaliable, name the number #1 source of Thick eva foam used by cosplayers
Flooring foam/ puzzle piece foam (yoga mats also)
Cosplayers use this theatrical product to block out natural eyebrows before redrawing them.
Glue Stick (purple)
This cosplayer is known as the QUEEN of cosplay, with her own line of fabrics, patterns and even a sewing machine
Yayahan
This local convention is known for its infamous gazebo.
Katsucon
What can be used as boning for a corset?
synthetic whalebone, steel bonings, plastic zip-ties, spiral steel boning, reed boning
How can you keep detachable pieces like belts or armour from sliding out of place?
Hidden snaps, Velcro, magnets, or anchoring to the costume underneath
What are one of the two ways to create volume in wigs?
Teasing or Crimping
What is the definition of 'sandbagging' in cosplay?
Entering a cosplay that has already won a major award into another cosplay competition
This is the largest anime convention in the world.
Anime Expo
What does "cutting on the bias" mean, and what does it do to fabric?
Cutting at a 45-degree angle to the grain, makes fabric more stretchy and drapey
Before thermoplastics became widespread, many armour cosplayers used this paper-and-resin crafting method popularised in the Halo fandom
Pepakura
This Japanese street fashion district heavily influenced colourful cosplay wig aesthetics in the 2000s
Harajuku
What year was the Ohio state cosplay club first founded
2012
This is the world's largest cosplay competition. It is hosted in Nagoya, Japan.
The World Cosplay Summit
I am a strong, enclosed seam, used to encase raw edges, protecting them from fraying. Being secured with a topstitch or a whipstitch. Being found in jeans or cosplay armour suits. What am I?
Flat-felled seam or felled seam
Round and round it goes
When will it stop? Nobody knows
It's the second layer, but it's not the last
Oh when will you be done with this ____ ____
Slush Cast (Hollow Cast or Rotocast)
Cosplayers use this method to defy gravity in anime-style wigs, often involving glue, hairspray, and foam cores.
Spiking
What was the Name of the first offical recorded cosplayer
Myrtle R. Douglas/ Morojo
This is potentially considered the world's first cosplay event, and it was hosted in 1939 by this famous author.
(Two Parter)
World Science Fiction Convention.
Hosted by Jules Verne.